The Washington critic., 1887-12-30
GENERAn Nnws NoT1ls.

mine 1t Lost Greek, Pa, operated Wy tho w.
high Valley Coal Company, caused q los Of
$4,000.
The steel manufacturers arc dissatisfied
with the new scale Of the AmalEmnied Az
ISOLATION. which should 90 into elect on
MONDAY.
Payne, steel. & Co., wholesale jewellers,
IN and l1D Broadway, Nov York made an
assignmen, yesterday.
Master Workman james r. Quinn, of the
knirlts.of lAbor, was tried aud acquitted
in New York Yesterday on n charge vi ng.
saulling newspaper reporter,
The aforementioned Of Forinosl has
contracted with an American firm to light
the provincial capital with electricity and 10
build two fast steamers.
An unknown man entered the -torssff iir
Eau Claire Meat Company OF WNhhurL
Wis yesterday, secured $500 from tho suio
and escaped
An cypress trnin on the I.chi,h Valley
Railroad was wrecked nt JcddO, Fu, Sc ,u..
day, The engine jumped the track, lull
down GOlu0t embaulympnt uud two
coache. wrru thrown across the truck. No
one WIS hurt
Adyices from Brisbane state that Mr.
licvan. the explorer found in The interior
OF l'Hpua splendid river sysieu3 which form
highways for a large agricultural country.
John Crosby, president Of the National
Millers' Association (M.uncapulil, and
active manager and senior member 0f tho
great milling firm of Wu,hhurn, Crosby a.
Co., died yesterday.
In New York yesterday Christopher Oscan-
yon, the Journalist indicted for selling a plr.
ginrlLcd story ~ 4 newspaper syndicate, was
discharged on hls own rccognAncc, upon
the recommendation Of District Attorney
MARITIME.
Henry Wise iarmcr, was found frozen 10
death Wednesday ten miles from AUSTIN
| Teyns His MULES were also frozen stiff
This is the first death by freezing that ever
occurred in that section
The Corcun embassy. which was landed nt
Yokohama by the United States mnn-of-war
Omaha, has arrived nt San Francisco on tho
steamer Oceanic, which is now being dc.
taincd in quarantine
| Tho sound steamer City Of Richmond
struck rock off Tenth street. New York.
on her way NJ East River yesterday, aud
/ began to On, Fire also broke out, but was
promptly cytiugllishcd. Tho steamer was
iakcn TO tho -eyenteenth-street dock In
Brooklyn.
| The Mobile tAla) Regisier announces that
james .. CLARK, late president of the Illinois
| Central Road, has been appointed by Presi-
| dent Duncan general manager of the Mobile
| and Ohio ltoad, TO succeed Colonel II. NJ. X.
| TGcott, resigned
! Great excitement prevails throughout ITar.
per County, Kansas, on account Of bitter
| feeling between Harper and Anthony over
! the contest for the county seat Hnrpcr was
| selected, but Anthony threatens 10 contest
| the result of the election with Winchester
| rifles. The citizens of Harper are preparing
to defend themselves.
James Black, living fourteen miles from
! Millerstown, Pa. turned on the natural gus
on going TO bed Wednesday night, and at
| one o'clock yesterday morning gawoke to find
the housr 10 flames. The house was do
stroyCd aud Black fatally burned. IIo
alkcd one mile almost naked to his fathers
| residence.
| Three notorious "geen goods" men wcrc
/ arrested IN New York yesterday while they
| were negotiating with four eountrymeu for
/ the sale of mythical counterfeit money, The
l intended victims were Jefferson Davis Law
renee, grocer and farmer and 1ully
I Iosior, \ saloon-kecper of Sumpter County,
South Carolina, and John G. Wilson and
! Cornelius Price Hampton, farmers, from
/ Yancy County, North Carolina
According to the Chicago RdH,pdy 1ge no
less than ", ,12i miles OF new main line tracks
were added TO the railway system of the
! United States In 1887 surprising tho record
of 1852, heretofore the year of greatest rail.
! way construction in the history of the couli-
try, wlen ll,5GS miles of new road wern
| built. Eighteen miles of new track were laid
in Maryland.
During the intense cold of Wednesday
night policemen in Cincinnati found man
in u doorway, apparently just about to
freeze to death after a debauch. He gave
the name of Patrirk o. Brien, aged 49, resi-
dence Iowa. The officers found in his
pockets 5000 in money and 5000 in checks
| payable to him, besides valuable gold
| watch and diamond jewelry. The locality
in which he was found is one of the worst
in the city.
A special from st. Francis, Ark, says
| William Hcrrig, a wealthy planter shot and
| killed William Maithewson, and then
forced his wife, to whom Matthewson was
attentive, TO drive to Matthewson's house
with the dead body. On her return She
| found her home in flames and was shot and
| killed by hor husband, who lied. Mrs.
Ilorrig was formerly an actress in Pauline
Markham's company, and later was in W..
III. Lyttles combination.